[ Thanks to Andrew
Weber for this link. ]
“One of the big advantages of using psacct on your server is
that it provides excellent logging for activities of applications
and users. When you are running scripts one of the important
aspects of that script is how much resources it may be using and
are there any resource limitations that may exist with the
application. In addition, there may be times when you run a script
as a user. In other words, you create a user with specific rights,
maybe even using visudo. You will likely use this to reduce the
security risks of a user who must issue a command with root
privileges.”